The Ogun government says it has so far issued additional 3,000 Certificates of Occupancy (C of O) to qualified applicants whose applications were initiated by the immediate past administration.
This, it said, was out of a total of 3,123 such applications.
Mr. Aina Salami, Director-General, Ogun Bureau of Lands, disclosed these while presenting the 2021 budget of the Bureau before the House Committee on Finance and Appropriation members on Thursday in Abeokuta.
Salami said that the Bureau had been working with concerned agencies to ensure that the backlog of applications for title documents were cleared, having contacted those with various queries discovered during inspection.
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On the 2021 budget, he said an estimate of N974 million, comprising N524.9 million for capital projects and the remaining N449 million for recurrent expenditure was presented.
In another development, Mr. Odunlami Olatunji, Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development, presented the proposed 2021 budget of the ministry, which he said was to ensure its repositioning in the next fiscal year.
This, Olatunji said, would be achieved with stringent measures and strategies toward strengthening and enforcing physical planning regulations in communities across the state.
He said that such measures were aimed at promoting an orderly and pleasing environment for good living, working condition and recreation, in line with the mission of the present administration.
The commissioner said that the present administration, through the ministry, had slashed the registration rates to attract more commercial, residential and industrial partners to the state.
He said that the ministry had budgeted N1.14 billion as capital expenditure and N207 million for recurrent.
Olatunji said that N492 million was expected as revenue to government coffers. (NAN)
